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Gods of Egypt |OT| Only Whores Can Save Us Feat. White People
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We should organize a GAF viewing once it hits Netflix.
DrForester
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Saw a commercial for this just now. All three of the critics quotes were by the same website (comingsoon.net). Did not catch if all three were by the same reviewer though.
TumblingHippo
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Is this the closest we'll ever get to a Zone Of the Enders adaptation?
Fine Ham Abounds
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Lol I've just been watching clips on youtube this morning
I don't even know what to say
Yeah, just... yeah
Geoffrey Rush pls
Ra apparently is an 80 year old fetus on a Final Fantasy airship
I don't even know what to say
Yeah, just... yeah
Geoffrey Rush pls
Ra apparently is an 80 year old fetus on a Final Fantasy airship
God of War x Zone of the Enders x Saint Seiya. This is the MOAT.
YesNOnoNOYes
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What did he mean by this?
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I literally just learned about Isis, Osiris, Horus, Set (the butchered Greek names for them) - the immaculate conception, the whole lot in class today.
Seeing the original myths marketed as mindless wankery (with added insult of whitewashing) while the stolen 2nd order beliefs are universally respected in hard-hitting dramas now turns my stomach
Edit: that said, Horus and Set did actually do awesome transforming shyt during their fight tbh
Seeing the original myths marketed as mindless wankery (with added insult of whitewashing) while the stolen 2nd order beliefs are universally respected in hard-hitting dramas now turns my stomach
Edit: that said, Horus and Set did actually do awesome transforming shyt during their fight tbh
Now I feel like seeing this movie.
FreedomFighter
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That is absolutely, fundamentally, 100% totally untrue.
Like, I'm almost wishing you had access to my Facebook account so you can see my Egypt photo album. Ain't anything European about Egypt, only place I ever got any semblance of a Euro vibe is in Alexandria.
Garrett Hawke
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it looks like a really expensive parody film, wtf
Saint Gregory
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Well there's that and the fact that this movie is supposed to be about the gods of the ancient Egyptians, who immigrated north along the Nile from central Africa, and not modern Egyptians who are their decendants as Well as the decendants of the other cultures that immigrated to Egypt over the course of thousands of years.
It would be like making a movie about the gods of Native Americans and using the cast of the Twillight films since they look more like modern Americans... wait, that's probably already in the works isn't it -_-
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Another brainwashing attempt from the Hollywood elite into subjugating the masses into accepting their evil Illuminati beliefs.
Eye of Horus = the all seeing eye perched atop a pyramid
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
Eye of Horus = the all seeing eye perched atop a pyramid
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
2 new reviews 
"‘Gods of Egypt’ is an unholy, unnecessarily whitewashed mess" - NY Daily News
"‘After a point, this proudly silly film about gods and mortals in ancient Egypt devolves into an sword-and-sorcery-flavored riff on a weak Marvel movie" - Roger Ebert
Rotten Tomatoes Score:
It would be a magical experience.
"‘Gods of Egypt’ is an unholy, unnecessarily whitewashed mess" - NY Daily News
"‘After a point, this proudly silly film about gods and mortals in ancient Egypt devolves into an sword-and-sorcery-flavored riff on a weak Marvel movie" - Roger Ebert
Rotten Tomatoes Score:
17%!
It would be a magical experience.
ryutaro's mama
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2 new reviews
"Gods of Egypt is an unholy, unnecessarily whitewashed mess" - NY Daily News
"After a point, this proudly silly film about gods and mortals in ancient Egypt devolves into an sword-and-sorcery-flavored riff on a weak Marvel movie" - Roger Ebert
Rotten Tomatoes Score:17%!
Movie is so bad, Ebert is throwing ether from beyond the grave.
Oh my gawd this is bad.
CloudyTuba
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I think this looks totally fun in a shitty B-movie sort of way. No way in hell am I going and paying full price to see it opening day or anything, but definitely when it hits those cheap dollar theatres.
Ebert always had a hard on for Alex Proyas. I could see him coming to the defense of this movie.
JustAnotherMike
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Every time I watched an ad for this I wondered who green lighted this movie. Then I remembered that those titans films from a few years ago must have done well enough for someone to gamble on this.
Which pantheon is next? I would expect Norse, but marvel already has that sort of through Thor. All the others don't really have a mass appeal.
I can't wait to rent this at my local redbox this fall.
Which pantheon is next? I would expect Norse, but marvel already has that sort of through Thor. All the others don't really have a mass appeal.
I can't wait to rent this at my local redbox this fall.
That just made me completely change my decision whether I want to see this movie or not. I am SO in now.
For the few thousand years of its dynastic period, contact was primarily with African (Nubia, Libya, Horn of Africa, etc) and Asiatic (Lebanon, Persia, Syria, Babylon, etc) countries. Europe didn't have any kind of meaningful contact with Africa until the Greek conquest of the region under Alexander, and that wasn't until 300BC - which is 2500 years after the early dynastic period (2000 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza, and 1000 years after the construction of the Sphinx)
I dont know, if it crosses into the its so bad its good realm, I might actually root for it
Like that Ra scene, there isnt anything really wrong with it its just badly shot and edited - I think this might be the film's biggest failing, the composition of the production and capture
Like that Ra scene, there isnt anything really wrong with it its just badly shot and edited - I think this might be the film's biggest failing, the composition of the production and capture
I actually really love the visual design of this film. It's like they saw Stargate and acted like the techno-Egyptian costumes and designs in that film were an actual historical record, and then layered crazy stuff on top of that.
Will be an enjoyably bad Netflix watch sooner rather than later, looks like.
Will be an enjoyably bad Netflix watch sooner rather than later, looks like.
I agree, it vibrant and colourful, like a cartoon come to life, it's not grim-dark taking itself too seriously. I like that.
More Fun To Compute
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There is more shared history between Egypt and Europe than Egypt and Ghana.
NCR Redslayer
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Even though this feels like the most nothing movie ever, i feel compelled to watch it.
Unspeakable Evil
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This movie looks like thrash but I kinda want to see it.
on TV
Oh man this is just awful hahaha.
Saint Gregory
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In that Egypt influenced European sciences and culture more than was shared between Egypt and Ghana's cultures then sure, but I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
Anyway this film seems to have been going for some kind of Marvel reimagining of Egyptian mythology. Accurately reflecting the racial appearance of how the ancient Egyptians may have seen their gods wouldn't have automatically made it a better film. It's definitely kind of sad they chose to go this direction with the cast though since it's clearly very distracting to a lot of people much like what was discussed with Exodus: GaK.
This is so astoundingly bad holy fuck.
Faran Tahir is Pakistani
But yea he's one of those dudes who Hollywood picks now and then to play a small role of an Indian, Pakistani, Middle Eastern in films.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
We have our very first positive review ladies and gents
"At the risk of having to turn in my Social Justice Warrior card, I inexplicably dug the heck out of Alex Proyass gonzo Gods of Egypt. Please forgive me." - Forbes
Summary - guilty pleasure film
From a random blogger
FreedomFighter
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Funny you would say Ghana instead of Sudan....
Egypt has more shared history with the Middle East and the rest of Africa than it does with Europe. And today, there's nothing European about Egypt. It's like you haven't been there at all.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Fine Ham Abounds
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He apparently continues on as an undead collective
God dammit, Dark City and the Crow was so good. WTF happened to Alex Proyas?
Fuck me. The guy behind Dark City is directing this film?
Please kill me.
This sentence seems accurate and almost makes me want to watch the movie for the lulz.
Messofanego
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It's More Fun To Compute, not More Fun To Travel.
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Saint Gregory
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All this time I just thought that for really bad movies he communicated his displeasure through a medium.
I had this whole image in my head of movie screening séances and now I'm disappointed
Vicetrailia
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I expect this movie to be throwaway trash. I'll likely catch it on Redbox.
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